SEATTLE — Most Washington elementary school principals, preschool teachers and parents think it would be a good idea to screen children to make sure they are ready for kindergarten, but they ...

Using a large population-based sample, this study aims to verify whether televiewing at 29 mo, a common early childhood pastime, is prospectively associated with school readiness at 65 mo ...

Researchers have found that a readiness test can predict kindergarteners' success in school ... Teacher-rated school readiness items in a kindergarten sample: Outcomes in first grade.. School ...

Much of the activity on kindergarten-readiness tests has flowed from the priority that the U.S. Department of Education under President Barack Obama has placed on improving early-childhood education.

Pennsylvania teachers are using the test this year with all entering kindergarten students. In its study of how Pennsylvania piloted the assessment in 2012 and 2013, Public Citizens for Children ...

Kindergarten readiness test questioned. By Shannon Nickinson. One of the key people who advocated to create the state’s free voluntary prekindergarten system has deep questions about how the ...

Kindergarten teachers across the state overwhelmingly panned a new test of student readiness that involves more class time and technology.The Maryland State Education Association, or MSEA, the ...

The practice round was rough. When Florida implemented a new Kindergarten Readiness test last fall — designed to determine if the state's thousands of Voluntary PreKindergarten (VPK) programs ...